Cochrane update: Predicting sustainability of intervention effects in public health evidence: identifying key elements to provide guidance.

Jillian Whelan1, Penelope Love1, Tahna Pettman1,2, Jodie Doyle2, Sue Booth1,3, Erin Smith1, Elizabeth Waters1,2 The CO-OPS Collaboration, WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Population Health SRC, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia Cochrane Public Health Group, Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Department of Public Health, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia Address correspondence to Jillian Whelan, E-mail: jill.whelan@deakin.edu.au

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